Throttle

['θrɒt(ə)l] or ['θrɑtl]

解釋/意思:

(n.) The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

(n.) The throttle valve.

(v. t.) To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle.

(v. t.) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated.

(v. t.) To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine.

(v. i.) To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.

(v. i.) To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.

海尔格校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Windpipe, trachea, throat, weasand.

v. a. Choke, strangle, suffocate.

布丽奇特編輯

解釋/意思:

n. the throat or windpipe.—v.t. to choke by pressure on the windpipe: to shut off the steam from a steam-pipe engine &c.—v.i. to breathe hard as when nearly suffocated.—ns. Thrott′le-pipe the vertical pipe between the throttle-valve and dry-pipe of a locomotive; Thrott′ler one who throttles; Thrott′le-valve a valve regulating the supply of steam to the cylinder.

整理:默尔